Egyptologist

Full definition of egyptologist

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of Egyptologist
• 1899, Dec 23, Review 6, The famous egyptologist, Prof. G. Maspero, is now having the third work of his Egyptian trilogy translated from the French by M. L. McClure
• 1988, May 9, ASK THE GLOBE, A. Rita Freed, an egyptologist at Memphis State University in Tennessee and the person who put the extra "es" in Ramesses for the Boston exhibition,
• 1995, Nov 5, PHARONIC TOMB OPEN, .. beautiful in the ancient burial ground of the Valley of the Queens and has been closed since its discovery by Italian egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli.
• 1998, Jan 3, On this day, In 1924, Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.
• 2003, Jun 11, Nefertiti's mummy 'found in Egypt', The egyptologists believe that she is one of three mummies discovered in a secret chamber of a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
• 2005, Sep 3, Tutankhamen murder mystery solved, According to Italian egyptologist Professor Sergio Donadoni the theories that have long surrounded Tutankhamen's death have always been produced by "picturesque legends without any scientific basis".
• 2006, Jun 28, No mummy in Valley of the Kings tomb but mystery remains whole, The first tomb discovered in Luxor's Valley of the Kings did not reveal its expected mummy, but egyptologists remained bent on cracking the mystery of "KV 63."
• 2007, Aug 2, Stem cells on the ISS, Biomedical egyptologist Jacky Finch of the University of Manchester, UK, who is studying ancient Egyptian big toes, made of wood and leather
• 2009, Mar 26, Gates of heaven, According to egyptologist Christiane Zivie-Coche writing in the exhibition catalogue, the aim of Les Portes du ciel is to provide visitors with ....

Usage notes

This word is generally capitalized.